HOMEWOOD, Alabama -- Fans of Dreamcakes Bakery's prize-winning cakes and cupcakes may now take the Homewood bake shop's creamy buttercream icing home with them.

Dreamcakes began selling 16- and 32-ounce containers of its all-natural icing at the bakery last week, and it should also be available at Birmingham-area grocery stores in about a month, business manager Ben Moon said.

The icing is available in four flavors -- vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and wedding cake, which is Dreamcakes' top-selling cupcake flavor.

A 16-ounce container retails for $6.99, and a 32-ounce container is $11.99.

Jan Moon, who founded Dreamcakes Bakery more than five years ago, said today she has received lots of requests for her icing from bakers who don't have the time to make it at home.

Dreamcakes Bakery's buttercream icing is available in four flavors and comes in 16- and 32-ounce containers. (Photo by Ben Moon)

"We have people asking about it all the time," she said. "We just realized there is nothing in the marketplace other than Pillsbury or Duncan Hines, and they are just filled with (preservatives). Our icing is made with all-natural ingredients --  butter and whipping cream, all of the good things you would make it with at home if you made it yourself."

The Dreamcakes icing is sold refrigerated, and it has a shelf life of several months in the refrigerator, Ben Moon said.

Since sharing the news on the Dreamcakes Facebook page, Ben Moon said they have received requests for shipments from as far away as California.

"We haven't figured that out yet because we would have to ship it in a refrigerated container . . . but hopefully, we'll be able to do that soon," he said.